Just a correction to avoid confusion: Hackerman is Sergey ;)
On 9 May 2016 at 19:55, Jonathan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, here are the meeting minutes from todays developer meeting in > #blendercoders on IRC. > > 1) Current Projects: > - Viewport Widgets Project is about ready for code review; artists also > welcome to test: https://developer.blender.org/T47032 > - Cycles Micropolygon displacement is in development; has Brecht's blessing > - Blender HMD support is about ready for review, should make 2.78: > https://developer.blender.org/T47899 > - Sergey and Hackerman are working on Cycles hair render and depsgraph > speedups, documentation coming soon > > > 2) Other Projects: > - The 2.8 Branch has begun! > https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/blender2.8/ > - Module teams are encouraged to discuss what legacy features to remove in > 2.8 branch, starting to clean the slate for new development > - Simplified 2.8 keymap progresses slowly; nothing to test yet but Jonathan > Williamson will reach out to module members before much longer to test > > > 3) GSOC: > - Thomas Dinges worked last week on refactoring Cycles image code, reducing > memory usage for smoke/bumpmaps, and added support for rendering HDRs on AMD > machines. https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:DingTo/GSoC_2016/Proposal > > - Lukas Stockner is finishing up some previous Cycles patches before > getting started on his GSOC project: > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Lukasstockner97/GSoC_2016/Proposal > > Lukas could use sample .blends from artists to test denoising. Contact him > on IRC. > > The main patches are decent color management in Cycles ( > https://developer.blender.org/D1973 ), and support for energy conversing > microfacet models ( https://eheitzresearch.wordpress.com/240-2/ ) > > The main thing this enables is more realistic BSDFs. A new Layer model node > with glosy coating may also be coming, which will be physically accurate. > > - Sebastian Barschkis is working on MantaFlow, cherry picking a few things > to start, determining what in Blender can stay and what will be handled by > the manta script. > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sebbas/GSoC_2016/Proposal > > - Julian Eisel is working on a detailed design doc for the Layer Manager, > which is about ready. He'll review it with his mentor before publishing. The > technical design is about done, just needs written down. > https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Julianeisel/GSoC-2016/Layer_Manager_Proposal > > - Philipp Gosch is familiarizing himself with the codebase and reading > papers. https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:SaphireS/gsoc2016/proposal > > - Other GSOC students are encouraged to join IRC and attend Developer > Meetings. Stay engaged! > > ---- > > Next meeting is May 18th at 10am Amsterdam time. Check the meeting time in > your timezone at: https://blendercoders.xyz > > > > Cheers, > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
